PMID- 30676001 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20200408 LR - 20200408 IS - 2157-6564 (Print) IS - 2157-6580 (Electronic) IS - 2157-6564 (Linking) VI - 8 IP - 2 DP - 2019 Feb TI - Challenges Toward the Identification of Predictive Markers for Human Mesenchymal Stromal Cells Chondrogenic Potential. PG - 194-204 LID - 10.1002/sctm.18-0147 [doi] AB - Human bone marrow derived mesenchymal stromal cells (BMSCs) represent a putative cell source candidate for tissue engineering-based strategies to repair cartilage and bone. However, traditional isolation of BMSCs by adhesion to plastic leads to very heterogeneous cell populations, accounting for high variability of chondrogenic differentiation outcome, both across donors and across clonally derived strains. Identification of putative surface markers able to select BMSC subpopulations with higher chondrogenic capacity (CC) and reduced variance in chondrogenic differentiation could aid the development of BMSC-based cartilage and bone regeneration approaches. With the goal to identify predictive markers for chondrogenic BMSC populations, we assessed the gene expression profile of single cell-derived clones with high and low CC. While a clustering between high and low CC clones was observed for one donor, donor-to-donor variability hampered the possibility to achieve conclusive results when different donors were considered. Nevertheless, increased NCAM1/CD56 expression correlated in clones derived from one donor with higher CC, the same trend was observed for three additional donors (even if no significance was achieved). Enriching multiclonal BMSCs for CD56(+) expression led to an increase in CC, though still highly affected by donor-to-donor variability. Our study finally suggests that definition of predictive marker(s) for BMSCs chondrogenesis is challenged by the large donor heterogeneity of these cells, and by the high complexity and plasticity of the BMSCs system. Multiple pathways and external parameters may be indeed involved in determining the chondrogenic potential of BMSCs, making the identification of putative markers still an open issue. Stem Cells Translational Medicine 2019;8:194&11. CI - (c) 2019 The Authors. Stem Cells Translational Medicine published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of AlphaMed Press. FAU - Studle, Chiara AU - Studle C AD - Department of Biomedicine, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland. FAU - Occhetta, Paola AU - Occhetta P AD - Department of Biomedicine, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland. FAU - Geier, Florian AU - Geier F AD - Department of Biomedicine, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland. FAU - Mehrkens, Arne AU - Mehrkens A AD - Department of Biomedicine, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland. FAU - Barbero, Andrea AU - Barbero A AD - Department of Biomedicine, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland. FAU - Martin, Ivan AU - Martin I AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-6493-0432 AD - Department of Biomedicine, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - England TA - Stem Cells Transl Med JT - Stem cells translational medicine JID - 101578022 RN - 0 (Biomarkers) SB - IM MH - Adult MH - Biomarkers/*metabolism MH - Bone Marrow/metabolism MH - Bone Marrow Cells/metabolism MH - Cartilage/metabolism MH - Cell Differentiation/physiology MH - Cells, Cultured MH - Chondrocytes/metabolism MH - Chondrogenesis/*physiology MH - Female MH - Humans MH - Male MH - Mesenchymal Stem Cells/*metabolism MH - Stromal Cells/*metabolism MH - Tissue Engineering/methods PMC - PMC6344903 OTO - NOTNLM OT - Chondrogenesis OT - Human bone marrow derived mesenchymal stromal cells OT - NCAM1/CD56 OT - RNA sequencing OT - Selection markers OT - Tissue engineering EDAT- 2019/01/25 06:00 MHDA- 2020/04/09 06:00 PMCR- 2019/01/24 CRDT- 2019/01/25 06:00 PHST- 2018/07/02 00:00 [received] PHST- 2018/09/05 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2018/09/21 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2019/01/25 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2019/01/25 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2020/04/09 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2019/01/24 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - SCT312424 [pii] AID - 10.1002/sctm.18-0147 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Stem Cells Transl Med. 2019 Feb;8(2):194-204. doi: 10.1002/sctm.18-0147.